Fishbone Line Bonder

[KillerB]

???

 

[ponder]

why cant i just buy the v-1200 and install it myself without using your cap? i have 2 4mb static account that i just want to bond 2 get 8mbs, but know i have to pay like R1800 for 10gigs of vox cap that i veel are not necessary coz i have uncapped accounts.

You need a device on the other end to deal with your traffic, multilink pppoe router or some other type of aggregation device like a proxy server for example.
If you only have a 4Mb/s line how do you expect to "bond" to accounts in order to give you 8Mb/s when that exceeds the physical line/port speed. Unless you meant you have 2x4Mb/s adsl lines at home.

 

[Pada]

I think you would be better off using a decent load balancer, rather than going for line bonding. Usually there are a couple of ways to do load balancing. There isn't a simple solution for splitting the traffic perfectly across 2 ADSL lines. Like my MikroTik router have a couple of ways to do the load balancing: ECMP (Equal Cost Multi-Path), NTH, Based on Source Address, Based on Packet/Protocol type.

Also, you need to clear up whether you have 2 separate ADSL lines installed at home or just 2 ADSL accounts and a single ADSL line.

 

[ponder]

Also, you need to clear up whether you have 2 separate ADSL lines installed at home or just 2 ADSL accounts and a single ADSL line.

He's got me properly confused on that one

 

[to0kenZA]

You need 1 physical ADSL per line that you want to bond . So if you want 12mb you need 3 lines etc (4 in reality).

As I've said before, it's not really a commercial product, it's more for corporate customers.

And no, you can't use your own DSL accounts.

 

[Slaught3r]

LoL dude, we have more than 200 of these out in the field already after not even a year after it's launch.

There's always someone that feels the need to be silly!

Agreed

 

[KillerB]

In connection with the above VSR, your static will work on the Fishbone however the fishbone requires a minimum of 10GIG with the Fishbone device.

Attached I have added some Fishbone details. I will combine a quote for you and send it shortly

Kind Regards

Kathleen Morgan
Vox Orion Brand leader
Team - Yottabytes

And no, you can't use your own DSL accounts.

WTF they don't know what they are doing coz i got mailed i can use my own accounts just need min 10gigs of vox cap and the other one says you can not use your own accounts.... something fishy....

Maybe that's why its called fishbone....

 

[Pada]

KillerB, maybe you can actually use both the Fishbone and your static accounts, but you would only be able to get like 8Mbps with a single segmented download when you're using the Fishbone accounts...
But yeah, what to0kenZA said doesn't match what Kathleen said... and I would rather trust the engineer than a sales person

 

[KillerB]

But then most the people can't use fishbond coz when u have static or diginet you have an 12month contract...

 

[headstrong]

To0kenZA, do these corporate clients use the fishbone for large downloads, web browsing or VOIP?

Is there an inverse relationship between high download and high latency? ie its all very well to have a 20mbps download, but whats the latency like?..ie can I game with it?

 

[Grep]

token, please correct me if I am wrong. Fishbone requires devices on both ends of the network, one our side, one your side and then bond the connection. We would therefore use your internet infrastructure for internet breakout.

 

[ganjananda]

Hi,
I find the fishbone to be pretty bad, with 4x 4mb adsl lines we should get a 16mb connection, but on average we get 1~2mb. It's very slow an often we have problems. Vox themselves are now pushing the direct wixmax broadlink connection as an "upgrade" to the bonded solution because "adsl is slow". Also it is pretty expensive if you buy data from vox.

All in all is a bad deal, getting rid of it asap.

 

[Hummercellc]

Try Mweb Bonded, seem to be much better than VOX.... Just saying...

 

[Pada]

ganjananda:
If you're sitting on a congested exchange, then bonding lines won't be of any benefit, and neither would moving to another ISP.

In my opinion VOX/Fishbone sales & support people should've done speed & stability tests on the exchange before they supplied you with a bonded ADSL solution.

Could you please post trace routes here to like www.google.co.za?
If the first hop is higher than say 100ms, then you're most likely sitting on a congested exchange, in which case you can only log faults with Telkom/your ISP, as well as getting neighbours with the same issue to also reports faults. Hopefully that will speed up the upgrade/fixing period of the exchange.